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General Electric Co. (NYSE: GE) and Nigeria signed an agreement for the U.S. company to build power plants as Africa's most populous nation continues to privatize and expand its power generation capacity, Reuters said Monday.

The tensions in Afghanistan continue to rise as two British troops were shot to death in southern Afghanistan by a gunman in an Afghan army uniform.

T-Mobile USA, the 4th largest wireless carrier in the United States is slashing jobs like nobody's business. The company plans to cut 1,900 jobs in 7 call centers, as it tries to stay relevant in a cutthroat mobile business. This comes after the failed acquisition by AT&T, which ironically had plans to save and create jobs than putting 1,900 workers out of a job at a time when jobs are not easy to come by. The FCC who stroked down the deal must be scratching its head right now after this reve...

The United States and Turkey are formulating a plan to send non-lethal aid to Syria's embattled dissidents, a White House deputy national security adviser told reporters in Seoul on Sunday.

The American Petroleum Institute, the country's largest oil industry backed trade group, slammed the U.S. Senate as it readies to vote to eliminate tax breaks for oil companies.

Oprah Winfrey took the Next Chapter edition of her show to Fairland, Iowa on Sunday where she explored a new type of spirituality: Transcendental meditation.

Tiger Woods' Masters odds have improved after his win on Sunday.

Even as Americans are divided by partisan lines, more than three-quarters say the Supreme Court justices' political beliefs will influence their decision when ruling on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act.

Contracts to purchase previously owned homes unexpectedly fell in February, suggesting a further pullback in sales as the housing market struggles to regain its footing.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, previously reluctant to expand the size of euro zone bailout funds, agreed to support a €200 billion ($265 billion) increase of the firewall on Monday.

Tim Tebow could be involved in a love triangle with two celebrity females.

Sarkozy said he would ban certain Imams invited to attend a congress by the Union of French Islamic Organizations (UOIF), a group regarded as being close to Egypt's Islamist Muslim Brotherhood.

U.S. pending home sales fell 0.5 percent in February compared to January, the National Association of Realtors said Monday, missing expectations and heightening concerns the real estate market's recovery may not be as robust as thought by economists.

After calling the recent recovery a puzzle, markets reacted enthusiastically to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's pronouncements

When the first quadcopters were developed, they seemed like incredibly cool toys you could control with your smartphone. In a fast-paced tech world, students and researchers soon started to experiment with the quadrotor devices, getting them to fly aggressively, work together to build towers or demonstrate complex swarm patterns.

In early May, Research in Motion (RIM) will provide software developers with prototypes for its upcoming Blackberry smartphone platform, expected to launch later this year. RIM will give out as many as 2,000 BlackBerry 10 test models at its BlackBerry Jam Convention in Orlando, scheduled for May 1-3.

Australia has blocked China's Huawei Technologies Co Ltd HWT.UL from tendering for contracts in the country's $38 billion National Broadband Network (NBN) due to cyber security concerns, Huawei said on Monday.

Johnson & Johnson's blood clot preventer Xarelto proved as effective as and safer than standard treatments against blood clots of the lung in a big study, possibly paving the way for it to become the eventual preferred treatment for the third most common cause of deaths in hospitals.

The leaders of Mexico and Colombia (two major drug-producing nations) have also called for a new approach to coping with the violent and hugely lucrative narcotics trade.

Credit Suisse downgraded Safeway Inc to neutral from outperform saying the second-biggest U.S. supermarket operator has a larger-than-expected underfunded pension liability.

The Fed chairman said U.S. job market conditions remain weak despite three months of strong hiring and that the improved employment data seem to be out of sync with the overall pace of economic growth.